re: Loudest games in LSU history. (Posted on 1/13/13 at 6:08 am to BRAVEHEART)

Heck... the night before the 79 game vs. USC was one of the loudest games. Only time I've heard of po po being called out to break way through crowd to allow visiting team to walk the field, the night before the game (I was on front row). Estimates ranged from 5 -8000 crazies crowded the buses for USC. That USC team had three guys that made it to the NFL HALL OF FAME and two Heisman Winners! Plus, 20 players that would make/eventually make All American. My dad had a friend from USC come in for the game with the line, "It's the only place in America where the fans stand up and applaud the visiting team..." My dad was an Auburn grad. This man arrived in time to drive over to the stadium Friday night to witness the near riot around the USC buses. His comment, "It's the only place I've ever been where I personally witnessed 70 year old women screaming the entire game... Everyone screamed at the top of their lungs the entire game." Famed sportswriter, the late Jim Murray of the L.A. Times covered that game and then covered a Rams game in L.A. the following day. His column, which was sent to me by the USC grad, began with the line, "It ought to be against the law to watch a game in Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge and have to cover another game the following day..." I lost the article and have searched many archives for it as it also included many other great "brags" on our incredible venue.

re: Loudest games in LSU history. (Posted on 1/13/13 at 6:39 am to dukke v)

The fans who never went to the games when we only had the west upper just can't accept that TS was louder back then. I remember as a kid being in awe of how loud it was. Tiger baiting the opposing team as they came out gave me goose bumps. Had an older fan "big red" ( I think) that had a metal megaphone... Yelled tigah bait, tigah bait over and over.

re: Loudest games in LSU history. (Posted on 1/13/13 at 7:02 am to Topwater Trout)

quote:I don't remember that segment but a lot of fans will say it was louder in the 80's. I do think there was a higher percentage of fans that yelled their arse off back then.

Simple explanation: that was before the fire marshal limited the number of students to the number of seats in the student section. I was at LSU before they made that change. We had a row of students standing on the seats and another row standing between the rows of seats.

re: Loudest games in LSU history. (Posted on 1/13/13 at 7:49 am to rpg37)

I wasn't at USC '79 or Florida '97, unfortunately. I might be the only Tiger fan to admit that...

There have been a bunch of loud games, but if we're talking about ear drum rattling, yelling in your neighbor's ear and he still can't hear you, hearing is muffled because your ears are ringing for a few hours after the game, two games come to mind for me: UGA 2003 and Auburn 1995. There was something special for both of those games.